TacoCat's TrEats #3: Singaporean food in Helsinki! 🍲

Hey Steemians!

If you didnt already know, I've been in Finland for the past 3 months or so for a school exchange program. The actual campus I'm studying at is in a small town called Mikkeli but it's quite ulu so we have to travel to Helsinki every time we want to venture out.

Anyway, on our second trip to Helsinki we took a bus and ended up in their major bus interchange called Kamppi, where we found a stall selling Singaporean food!

We were really surprised to find a Singaporean restaurant so we decided to give it a shot.

The menu includes 7 items:
1 ) Mamak Mee Goreng (Fried Noodles)
2 ) Beef Kway Teow
3 ) Singapore Kway Teow Goreng
4 ) Fried rice noodles [bee hoon]
5 ) Fried Japanese noodles
6 ) Nasi Goreng (Fried Rice)
7 ) Vegetarian [kinda looks like nasi lemak?]

Since we were not really sure about the prawns here we tried the beef kway teow first.

Seems legit

Although it looks very similar, I would say the taste is far from what we are used to in Singapore. I guess it's not exactly Char Kway Teow so some differences are to be expected. I think the main difference is the sauce they used. Perhaps it's to cater to the tastes of Finnish people here, but the sauce was really really salty! I could tell they dumped a lot of soy sauce in it. The chili that we added was also different because it wasn't very spicy so it didn't really help to negate the saltiness.

I'm not sure if that's how the Finnish people like it but upon observing the ang mohs eat, they pour (not just drizzle) a lot of soy sauce onto their fried rice, so I guess that's just how they eat. It's not really to our taste because in Singapore, I believe the hawkers add some sweet sauce/oyster sauce as well as lup cheong, which is a bit sweet too.

It wasn't too bad though, for a replicated dish so many miles away. The beef was good, and we got to eat tau geh which is always good! 😋 And for €10.90 I think it's pretty worth it because the quantity is quite a lot for 1 person, and for a meal it's pretty average price.

The shop is located on the basement floor within this mall attached to the bus interchange, called Kamppi.

Anyway, after our meal we talked to the owner for a bit, and told her we were exchange students from Singapore. She said she was from Malaysia, and has stayed in Finland for around 20 years! We asked her if there were any other Singaporean shops around, to which she said no, but other Singaporeans have come to eat here at her shop as well.

On our second visit, we tried the "fried rice noodles", which is basically bee hoon. This was a lot less saltier and tasted just like regular sg bee hoon. It was still pretty tasty though! 😊

It was really cool to see a successful Singaporean restaurant so far away from home! The Finnish people seemed to really enjoy the food as well. Maybe we'll try the fried rice next time before we head back to Singapore! 😄

Thanks for reading!

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Check out my previous post in this series!
TacoCat's TrEats #2: Singaporean breakfast foods!